Saga – Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples – #1-18 Review Two worlds at war, the planet of Landfall and its moon Wreath. Two different cultures, one based around science and the […]
Saga – Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples – Review
Updike – Adam Begley – Book Review
Updike by Adam Begley – Review by Dan O’Neill There’s a passage Adam Begley’s ‘Updike’, a comprehensive and engaging book, that refers to John Updike joining a Recorder group to meet up […]
A Taste of Chlorine – Bastien Vivès- Book Review
A young man has problems with his back. His physiotherapist tells him that there is only so much he can do in his weekly sessions, and that he’ll have to start getting […]
The Son – Jo Nesbø – Audible Review
The Son by Jo Nesbo – Review by Helen O’Leary Translated by Charlotte Barslund. Read by Sean Barrett. Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø is known best for his popular crime novels about Inspector […]
Walking Dead – All Out War – Volumes 20 – 21 – Review
Contains vague Spoilers, go read it first! – All Out War # Issues 115-126 This is a series of issues in which Rick unites a number of small communities who all suffer […]
The Sports Gene – Talent, Practice and the Truth about Success – David Epstein – Book Review
‘The Sports Gene – Talent, Practice and the Truth about Success’ David Epstein – Review by Dan O’Neill Born to Run What makes an elite athlete ‘elite’? In the Nature versus Nurture […]
Grandville: Bete Noire – Bryan Talbot – Book Review
The Badger is back! This is the third instalment of the series concerning the badger detective. This tale begins with LeBrock and Ratzi being called to Paris to investigate a murder that […]
The Film Club – David Gilmour – Book Review
‘Film Club’ – Buy a Ticket – Review by Dan O’Neill Fathers and Sons – a perennial topic for artists and fabulists since biblical times. What makes for a good relationship? As […]
My Age of Anxiety – Scott Stossel – Book Review
Fear and Trembling – ‘My Age of Anxiety’ – Review by Dan O’Neill By most reckonings, Scott Stossel has had and is having a successful life. He went to Harvard, is married […]
Coldbrook – Tim Lebbon – Book Review
Coldbrook – Review by Mary Donnelly In a CERN type experimental laboratory in the Appalachian mountains a “breach”, a door between worlds, is opened, all living things that come through are zapped […]
Temporary Gentleman – Sebastian Barry – Book Review
Jack McNulty is the Temporary Gentleman, a retired Irish soldier who served in the British Army during the Second World War. His story is also based on the maternal grandfather of the […]
American Smoke – Iain Sinclair – Book Review
American Smoke by Iain Sinclair – Review by Cormac Donnelly In “American Smoke” Iain Sinclair traces a path through the landscape of the United States and the channels of his memories, searching […]
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air – Darragh McKeon – Book Review
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon – Book Review by Helen O’Leary There are several things that particularly appeal about this debut novel that is set in April […]
Frog Music – Emma Donoghue – Audible Review
There is something that draws you in about the world that Emma Donoghue has created for her latest novel ‘Frog Music’. The book is set in San Francisco during 1876. It is […]
Film Freak – Christopher Fowler – Book Review
Film Freak by Christopher Folwer – Review by Mary Donnelly Like many readers I came to Christopher Fowler after seeing the rather arresting cover of Spanky in the horror section of a […]
JKF’s Last Hundred Days – Thurston Clarke – Book Review
JKF’s Last Hundred Days by Thurston Clarke – Review by Cormac Donnelly When President Obama shook the hand of Raul Castro at the funeral of Nelson Mandela in December 2013, international media […]
The Spinning Heart – Donal Ryan – Book Review
The Spinning Heart was the first published novel by Donal Ryan, and tells the tale of small town life in Limerick. The story is told as a collection of interwoven short stories. […]
Mark Kermode – The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex: What’s Wrong with Modern Movies – Book Review
Mark Kermode is a grumpy man. He is made more grumpy by the state of our cinemas- how they show movies, what they are showing, how they sell their tickets. Remember when […]
The Free – Willy Vlautin – Book Review
The Free by Willy Vlautin – Review by Helen O’Leary Willy Vlautin’s reputation as a novelist is slowly growing. His last book was short listed for the IMPAC Prize but he still […]
Book Review: “Worst.Person.Ever.” Douglas Coupland
Is Worst. Person. Ever. one of the worst novels ever written? No, but Douglas Coupland’s 14th novel is without a doubt his worst.novel.ever. I say this from the point of view of […]
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China – Guy Delisle – Book Review
This is one of Guy Delisle’s earliest Travelogues, with a trip to Shenzhen, China to oversee the completion of a children’s cartoon in 1997. Delisle spent a three month period in China, […]
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes – Mary & Bryan Talbot – Book Review
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes – Written by Mary M Talbot, Drawn by Bryan Talbot. Published by Jonathan Cape. This is a graphic novel written by Mary Talbot and illustrated by her […]
Cuba in Revolution – Book Review
Why is Cuba Beautiful? Review by Sean Sheehan Cuba in Revolution, texts by Richard Gott, Peter Kornbluh, Mark Sanders (Hatje Cantz) Cuba, Andrew Moore (Damiani) There should be a place in everyone’s […]
Doomed – Chuck Palahniuk – Book Review
Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk Doomed is the second novel in a trilogy that started with Damned. In Damned Madison Desert Flower Rosa Parks Coyote Trickster Spencer finds herself damned to Hell after […]
Not Lost – A Story about Leaving Home – Sarah Maria Griffin – Book Review
Not lost is an unusual body of work from poet, journalist and sometimes novelist Sarah Maria Griffin. It takes us from the weeks before she left Dublin to the new world she […]
Stoner – John Williams – Book Review
It was the intriguing story behind this book that caught my attention initially. The novel was first published in America fifty years ago. At the time it sold no more than 2,000 […]
Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes – Book Review
What is a Photograph by Sean Sheehan Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes (Vintage Classics) Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, edited by Geoffrey Batchen (MIT Press) No self-respecting student […]
Book Reviews – The House on Parkgate Street by Christine Dwyer Hickey and New Planet Cabaret
The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories – Christine Dwyer Hickey The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories tells of Dublin through the ages. Written by award winning […]
Food DIY – Tim Hayward – Book Review
Stuck for an ideal Christmas gift for the handyman –or woman- in your life? Look no further. Outdoorsy life meets culinary art meets Blumenthalian scientific application meets making your own beanhole oven […]
No More Workhorse 